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Why wouldn't the part of the Earth facing the Sun half year before facing away from it now at noon?
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76
Why is counting election totals more difficult than lottery administration?
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72
Why do people repeatedly hit the phone hook switch when disconnected?
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63
Why does the Earth follow an elliptical trajectory rather than a parabolic one?
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62
Why is it hard to take a high quality image of far away objects (like Pluto) using a high-tech space telescope?
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60
If force depends only on mass and acceleration, how come faster objects deal more damage?
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59
Why is Microwaved mac & cheese burnt where they touch?
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59
Why is ascending some stairs more exhausting than descending?
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57
What is the reason behind water not falling from a bucket at the top of loop?
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51
How do ISS astronauts "get their stripes"?
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48
Why does hot air rise in a column instead of cold air pressing down?
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47
Why do metals burn you when they've been left outside in direct sunlight?
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47
Why don't we hear sound reflecting from buildings, mirrors, etcetera?
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45
Why don’t nuclear reactors burn through most of their fuel before discarding it?
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45
Why Is Capacitance Not Measured in Coulombs?
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44
Can rockets fly without burning any fuel with the help of gases under extreme pressure only?
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44
What does the "bagel" setting on toasters do?
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43
How can interstellar space have a temperature of 2-3K?
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40
Why didn't Michelson and Morley assume or conclude that aether is homogenous and permeate all of space?
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39
Why does a car's steering wheel get lighter with increasing speed
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39
Can imaginary (illusionary) forces cause acceleration, and what exactly are they?
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37
How do hot air balloon pilots avoid collisions?
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37
How does GPS receiver synchronize time with GPS satellites?
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37
Why doesn't this magnetic perpetual motion machine work?
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35
Why do atoms (iron eg) glow with all frequencies of light when exposed to enough thermal radiation?
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34
How does a telescope make an image larger by shrinking it?
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34
Do Penn and Teller learn how a trick works after the show?
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32
To what extent do (man made) generators of heat from internal sources in earth's system cause climate change?
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31
How does a virus fall down in static air?
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28
Why are there not a whole number of solar days in a solar year?
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